Short Tricked Poems

He who looks too strict
can be easy tricked.

Volodymyr Knyr 
2017...

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Silence has fallen
but we have been tricked before
Don't let your guard down...

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Rumpelstiltskin-tricked! 
How fair is that? A Queen's 
word
not kept. Just a Troll....

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I plead not guilty your worship, I was tricked by feminine wiles,
And ever since God found out, I’m sleeping on the tiles....

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The young turkey started to crest
Then got tricked into a large nest
His feathers were pluck
He was naked as a duck
His get away was done with finesse...

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The Japanese servant man
                  Indentured to the princess,
                  Tricked her into loving him
                  through extreme kindness...

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A clever, caged yellow canary
tricked his foe, a cat big and scary.
He flew out with some luck.
Cat walked in and got stuck.
 Silly cat should have been more wary....

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deeply set shrewd eyes
prey seen tricked by noiseless flight…
backward nighttime sight

October 16, 2021
Syllable count : 5/7/5 (HMS)
Contest : Owl Haiku
Sponsor : Robert James Liguori...

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Like a zombie at a town picnic
Scarfing brains in my room, like a shtick
My costume I offed
For I retched and coughed
Mom said, "That was the ultimate trick!"

October 30th, 2019

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This one will be an un-bawdy limerick
Once was sewing and my finger got pricked
That innocent word pricked
Is quite un-bawdy, I tricked
It's clean as a whistle and twice as damn slick...

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This one will be an un-bawdy limerick
Once was sewing and my finger got pricked
That innocent word pricked
Is quite un-bawdy, I tricked
It's clean as a whistle and twice as damn slick...

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The ape was a mimic
So badger pestered him

A dog tricked the fox
And followed him to crow

This boast  to a rat
Was betrayed ...by and by

Tampering with its meaning..
was a monkey...on the sly....

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Once tricked, always the puppet 
The strings are invisible to many 
Somehow, you feel the tension of each rope
Constant tugging and pulling 
Marks left from overuse and abuse 
Doing what you must, not what you want...

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Nothing's “impossible,” the word says “I'm possible”
Oh so clever you tricky devil with your tricky audible
Even led you by the hand
Tricked you my poetry fan
Nothing's impossible no matter the obstacles...

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When I am alone with you-

I am trapped in the cycle of being tricked and betrayed. 

When I am surrounded by others-

I am trapped in the cycle of fighting back, numbly. 

My only strength right now-

Is distrust....

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Know someone very close to me who's an addict
Computer games are the culprit, their brain's been tricked
Think of not much else
Can affect one's health
Some haven't bathed for months, smell like a derelict...

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Seven years Jacob worked hard
for the love of sweet Rachel.
Tricked by his Uncle Laban
He married Leah.

Leah truly loved Jacob
but she must now step away.
It was but a rehearsal.  
Rachel is his bride.

For Dr. Mehta's Dodoitsu contest...

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Bob Cratchit, while slaving late alone
Tricked his boss by posting a framed clone
Of Ebenezer loaded with Yuletide cash,
Which was really the miser’s hidden stash!



Andrea Dietrich's A Christmas Character Clerihew Contest
12/09/2014...

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Silently he moves,
secretive by nature,
cautious by design,
startled by sudden movement,
dashes to safety,
watchful in his burrow,
tricked by skeletal shadows
of overgrown grass,
hunger pangs his insides,
ignored,
greater his will to survive....

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His sophistry made sense to the hillbillies who were listening
They ran out and told it as if it was gospel
Because to them, it was
They had no idea he was a conman.
They thought he was an honest man,
but alas, they were tricked by his tomfoolery....

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You haven’t changed much since the Garden
Except that you have added deception to your ignorance
Forbidden fruit once tricked you
Now you sin with enchanting eyes
You’re euphoric when I fall
You grimace when I crawl
My sorrow brings a laugh
My blood in your bath...

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Rain clatters the window,
a cloudburst in his climax.
He listens to his body buck away
from a vertex.
He feels bruised by his orgasm
as if she had tricked him;
there had been a rock in her river.
Her cigarette smoke,
now swirls like a ghost in a raindrop....

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It’s just an illusion
that softly stirs sadness within my broken heart’s
confusion.

I have been tricked.
I'm seduced by the Queen of Tarts -
and pricked.

Voodoo
casts magic darts -
you.

 It’s just an illusion,
 I'm seduced by the Queen of Tarts -
 you....

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self, be not overly full of yourself,
as fragile as crystal in a glass shelf,

             which, at the slightest imagined offense,
             recoils, sulks in resentful, vain defense

of your self-image that easily shatters,
so effortlessly tricked by flatterers....

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Within the realm of illusions
Wherein our attention is transfixed
Narrowness of our conclusions
Signals hypnotic maya has us tricked

If we be sleep walking in a trance
All seeming reality but a dream
Freedom simply an unclinging stance
Wherefrom radiant bliss streams

20-August-2020...

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